[Sca-cooks] Lenten ideas for non Christians...

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 08:53 PM 2/18/2006, you wrote:
>On 2/18/06 8:32 PM, "Radei Drchevich" <radei at moscowmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Lent for non-Christians?  Isn't that like Oxegen for Methane-breathers?
> >
> > joy
> > radei
>
>That does sound counter-intuitive, doesn't it?

Nahhh... ;-)

>  But [1] Maire is putting
>some real effort into her SCA persona and that's worthy of praise.  I'm one
>of the very few Caidans that even seems to notice Lent, far less incorporate
>it into food planning for events - and I didn't grow up Christian in any
>way, Jewish family and all.

I grew up in various fundamentalist churches- no Lenten observation, other 
than the little kids waving construction-paper palms on Palm Sunday. My 
parents thought Catholics were idolatrous, so most of medieval Christian 
practice was completely off the map.

>   It's all about really trying to look through
>Medieval eyes.

YES! And I think that this sort of thing could be SO eye-opening for so 
many SCAdians, to actually get a bit of a feel for something that was so 
big a part of daily life! I've simply been trying to get a grip on what 
daily sort of observances Elaine might have made in 1406- Lenten observance 
is over and above that. But 40 days is more than a tenth of the year- a 
pretty important chunk of it. Can we really understand medieval life 
without it?

>  [2] The winter sleep before the stirring of springtime is a
>good time for meditation on the cycle of life... Um, come to think of it,
>isn't Maire in Australia though?

Nope! She's in Artemisia! (Montana)

Interesting thought though- the opposition of Lent and Easter and the 
autumn Down Under...

Frankly, I'm really ready for spring to come...

'Lainie, tired of winter
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